Reddit is back after morning outage
Looks like someone hadn't had their coffee yet.
- Carrie has lived on both coasts and can definitively say that Chesapeake Bay blue crabs are the best.
Reddit was showing error messages when people visited the site Wednesday.
Reddit is back up after being down for a little over an hour on Wednesday morning. "A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results," said a message posted at 5:24 a.m. PT on the Reddit status dashboard.
The outage appears to have begun around 3:45 a.m. PT, according to outage monitoring site Down Detector, and was impacting people in Europe, the US East Coast and some other areas. Instead of being able to check in with their favorite subreddits, people got error messages when visiting the site on desktop and mobile, as wall as the Reddit app.
Reddit noted it was investigating a "high volume of errors" around 4:10 a.m. PT, according to its status dashboard. The company didn't immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
As during many website outages, people took to Twitter on Wednesday to complain and commiserate.
My morning reddit romp has been foiled by the (official) app outage.
— Tara L. Campbell (@taraWritesSci) February 19, 2020
I could use another, or a web browser, but instead I will distract myself with a (ridiculously pretty??) duck. pic.twitter.com/3ZeHGEwXn0
Just finished watching #Midsommar. How tf am I supposed to find out how I should be feeling about it, when @Reddit is down?!
— Anastasia Bverhousen (@AMFussyBroad) February 19, 2020
Reddit down, Reddit down. All us Reddit readers be like... pic.twitter.com/jU8HLpddRz
— Mark Narrations (@MarkNarrations) February 19, 2020
Originally published Feb. 19 at 5:17 a.m. PT.
Update, 5:39 a.m. PT: Notes that Reddit is back.